Originally Posted by
gugie
I have a pair of wool shorts. I only wear them for Eroica and Cino type events - as the kids say, it's "cosplay." They're not really bad, but washing them is a pain in the butt compared to lycra with synthetic chamois. They tend to sag by the end of a long ride. I switched to lycra over 4 decades ago and never looked back.
I have a pair of Ibex wool shorts with a modern pad. They are quite nice, too bad they went belly up.